The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-01-22
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
OLD SETTLES.
COL. DANIEL r. HIT.
Saretyor, Warrior, Farmer, Ctzen-Old'
Tine Memories. and Later Doings

An analysis Of waters, where many river
blend, will eften suggest the banks far dis
tant in which they began their flow. SO o
character. Its quality, shades, coloring tel
Of ancestry and companionship; of the times
peaceful or turbulent; Of life, indoors OF
out Of doors; of mountains and valleys; o.
broad savanahs or rolling oceans. When
Benjamin West said: "a kiss from my
saorher made me painter and Beethoven
II Rossini, "He would have been good
musician il when boy he had been well
aogged," they indicate the molding force Of
that which is early and external
The father of Daniel F. Hit, clerical
gentleman connected with the M, f. church
lived near Bulls Run, in Virginia; the
mother, In Maryla near Antietam, mem
orable in connection with Mcclellan. They
mad we'll filed their home with children in
Bourbon county, Kentucky, before Daniel
nun Der nine and youngest, appeared upon
The stage, June 10, 1910. We cannot blame
him for being so late, as there was nothing
snecial for him TO do. Not so with The mother.
With that family on her hands, and desire
10 bring them up in the nurtue ana al
mopition of the Lord" providing their
ponebread and bacon, cooking their fish
and venison, and Sticking them up for preach
ing sundays, she had enough to do, and
well deserves the tcuderest and most CRATE
iul remembrance Of her fidelity and mother
love. 1t is enough to MAKE one hope for
blessed mortality to have opportunity to get
even" with ones progenltors, If there has
not been ample opportunity here, to Pay
them for their work and love for US.
III 1914. after the battle of Lake Erie, the
family moved to Urbana, Ohio, where the
rather, having given up "traVeling,' is do
Gated" That year finds Napoleon arbitrator
Of Europe, the temporal power Of the Pope
abolished Napoleon accommodated by the
Roman Pontif and Napoleon regulating
lose phine and marrying Maria Louise. The
10y Daniel had nothing to do with any of
ma. business. but rather was preparing to
grow big enough % 60 to school where, like
ether boys. he got threshings, and gave them
10 others. Then a little later, he went To |
lie acaiemy. sn1 after that to the Military
school Of Capt Alden Partridge, at Norwich,
Vermont Here he gets taste Of Yankee
te,4s, beef and goldfish, nourishing the inner
maa: gets Yankee notions in his head
and some Yankee drill and discipline
.u'..le. One year of that. Back aga n to
Ohio. to Miami University at Oxford, where
teaching oyerlaps his Metho-
iism, and sturdy Scotch doctor of divinity |
f immense learning is president Of :he in
,,itution. I. l.. Dickey came into this COL
eye after him, AMI ". II. w. Cushman had
, cen in the military school before him, aud
Robt. SchencA, Of navy notorety, had been
,mong the boys with him. Getting on well
IN his teens the tendency in him is toward
.larhcmatics aud practical surveying His
academic stAdy ends at last, in familiar ao-
l 4niptance with the details and methods of
his occupation, as business.
Not long after leaving the college he has
he good fortune to find place on topo-
.raphica, corps, under the government, sur
yeying way for the Mad River railroad.
Then
RE CONES 70 ILLINOIS MAY 7, 1880
This was seven years after DR.. Davidson. the
arst white snttler, built his cabin on the
rivers bank the man who didn't care to
live nearer than eighteen miles to a white
man.
This was lhirty.f years after the
first treaty Of peace, under Gen. Wayne,
whereby the Indians allowed the United
States government free passage through their
country in Illinois, from the mouth of the
Chicago River, over the portage to the Hi
nois and down the Mississippi River. Aug
;, 1856 1t was fourteen years after the
treaty by Ninian Edwards and others, Aug
"a, 1916, with Mucketeypokee, Waupunsev,
strip Of land twenty miles wide. from the
~ luth of the Fox River to ten miles to the
north ward an ten mile. to the south ward
Of the mouth of Chicago Creek. in reality for
tho purpose Of opening canal communica-
unns bet weeD the lake and river There were